BCG’s main site at Warmur is looking superb at the moment and fingers are crossed it will be even better for the Main Field Day on September 14.
The Main Field Day will again feature trial site tours and presentations by leading agricultural professionals who will provide insight into agronomic and farming systems research and discuss the management of in-season issues.
This year’s farmer site hosts are Dan and John Boyle who manage the paddock on the Birchip-Warracknabeal road, 18km south-west of Birchip. The paddock is a clay loam soil type with a starting soil nitrogen of 79kg/ha, and 39mm of starting soil water. It was fallowed in 2015 and the area around the trials it has been sown to canola.
Field trials at the site are examining the response of wheat, barley and oat varieties to grazing, versatile oats and mixed pasture systems for hay opportunities, and gibberellic acid application in lentils and oats.
Other trials are comparing volunteer cereal control (wheat in barley and barley in wheat), the effect of varied nitrogen and phosphorous rates in wheat, and disease management in pulses.
A Yield Prophet® validation trial is also at the site.
More information about this event will be released in coming weeks.
